List of works - Piergiorgio Duca

A pneumatic dilation strategy in achalasia: prospective outcome and effects on oesophageal motor function in the long term

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

Acceptability of meningococcal serogroup B vaccine among parents and health care workers in Italy: a survey

scientific article

Accuracy and cost of diagnostic strategies for patients with suspected Crohn's disease.

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

Accuracy of ultrasonography, spiral CT, magnetic resonance, and alpha-fetoprotein in diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review

scientific article published in March 2006

Amplified in situ hybridization with peptide nucleic acid probes for differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and nontuberculous Mycobacterium species on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded archival biopsy and autopsy samples.

scientific article

Behavioral and degeneration changes in the basal forebrain systems of aged rats: a quantitative study in the region of the basal forebrain after levo-acetyl-carnitine treatments assessed by Abercrombie estimation.

scientific article published on 7 January 2009

Bleeding risk during treatment of acute thrombotic events with subcutaneous LMWH compared to intravenous unfractionated heparin; a systematic review

scientific article

CARD15 Gene Variants and Risk of Reoperation in Crohn's Disease Patients

article

Cerebral ultrasound abnormalities in offsprings of women with C677T homozygous mutation in the MTHFR gene: a prospective study

scientific article published on 28 June 2014

Changes in receptor status after treatment with tamoxifen in endometrial cancer

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

Cigarette smoking among high school students in Brescia: analysis of relations between smoking habit and knowledge, attitudes socioeconomic and behavioral factors

scientific article

Clinical decision making: an introduction

scientific article published on 13 November 2010

Clinical evidence continuous medical education: a randomised educational trial of an open access e-learning program for transferring evidence-based information - ICEKUBE (Italian Clinical Evidence Knowledge Utilization Behaviour Evaluation) - study p

article

Collection of data and approximation of measurements

scientific article

Computer simulator among experts involved in screening colonoscopy

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Data representation

scientific article

Decreasing incidence of CNS AIDS-defining events associated with antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published on May 2000

Definition of reference values for Cd-B and Cd-U: methodological aspects and preliminary results

scientific article

Deformational plagiocephaly at birth: an observational study on the role of assisted reproductive technologies

scientific article

Determination of urinary 2,5-hexanedione in the general Italian population

scientific article published on June 1998

Effects of ganglioside therapy on experimental CS2 neuropathy

scientific article published in December 1981

Eligibility criteria in heart failure randomized controlled trials: a gap between evidence and clinical practice

scientific article published on 09 August 2008

Errors in medical literature: not a question of impact.

scientific article

Estimation of pooled reference values for cadmium in blood using meta-analysis and TRACY criteria

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

Evaluation of Uterine Artery Doppler and Estrogen Milieu in Oocyte Donation Pregnancies-A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 26 April 2020

Evidence of differential selection of HIV-1 variants carrying drug-resistant mutations in seroconverters

scientific article published on January 2006

Exploratory data analysis

scientific article

Fibrosis progression in paired liver biopsies from HIV/HCV co-infected patients.

scientific article published on July 2011

First trimester placental markers in oocyte donation pregnancies

scientific article

Genotyping of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in Italian AIDS patients. Clinical outcome is influenced by dihydropteroate synthase and not by internal transcribed spacer genotype

scientific article published on August 2007

Headache in children and adolescents aged 6-18 years in northern Italy: prevalence and risk factors

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

Hearing loss in workers in the ceramics industry: a profile of the damage assessed by a longitudinal study

scientific article

Hearing threshold of workers not exposed to occupational noise: reference values

scientific article published in November 1987

Helicobacter pylori CagA seropositivity does not influence inflammatory parameters, lipid concentrations and haemostatic factors in healthy individuals

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Helicobacter pylori infection and coagulation in healthy people

scientific article

IBD care in Europe: A comparative audit of the inpatient management of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis using the national UK IBD audit tool

scientific article published on 17 September 2009

Immunomodulatory effects of unselected haematopoietic stem cells autotransplantation in refractory Crohn's disease

Improving adherence to and persistence with oral therapy of osteoporosis.

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Influence of climate on emergency department visits for syncope: role of air temperature variability

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Long-term prophylaxis in hereditary angio-oedema: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 11 July 2012

Lopinavir/ritonavir pharmacokinetics in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with or without cirrhosis

scientific article published on June 2008

Lopinavir/ritonavir treatment in HIV antiretroviral-experienced patients: evaluation of risk factors for liver enzyme elevation.

scientific article published on September 2004

Lung ultrasound is an accurate diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of pneumonia in the emergency department

scientific article published on 28 October 2010

Maintenance Treatment With Azathioprine in Ulcerative Colitis: Outcome and Predictive Factors After Drug Withdrawal

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Modified versus standard intention-to-treat reporting: are there differences in methodological quality, sponsorship, and findings in randomized trials? A cross-sectional study

scientific article

Mucosal Healing Predicts Late Outcomes After the First Course of Corticosteroids for Newly Diagnosed Ulcerative Colitis

scientific article published on 31 December 2010

Numerical synthesis of statistical data

scientific article

Open, randomized, multicentre italian trial on PEG-IFN plus ribavirin versus PEG-IFN monotherapy for chronic hepatitis C in HIV-coinfected patients on HAART.

scientific article published in January 2005

Pathological findings in the central nervous system of AIDS patients on assumed antiretroviral therapeutic regimens

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Precision of gestational age assessment in the neonate

scientific article published in February 1992

Predictors of hospital admission after syncope: Relationships with clinical risk scores

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Prevalence and clinical significance of sonographic evidence of mesenteric fat alterations in Crohnʼs disease

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and related upper gastrointestinal lesions in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. A cross-sectional study with matching

scientific article published in November 1997

Priorities for emergency department syncope research

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Prolonged wireless pH monitoring: importance of how to analyse oesophageal acid exposure

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Reference values of urinary chromium in Italy

scientific article published in January 1997

Reliability and accuracy in reporting CIN in 14 laboratories. Developing new indices of diagnostic variability in an interlaboratory study. The Working Group for External Quality Control in Cervical Cytopathology

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Reliability and accuracy of reporting cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in 15 laboratories throughout Italy: phase 1 of a national programme of external quality control in cervical screening. The National Working Group for External Quality Co

scientific article published in June 1996

Reproducibility of histologic classification of gastric cancer

scientific article

Reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements on normal and pathologic eyes by different optical coherence tomography instruments.

scientific article

Risk factors for fibrosis progression in HIV/HCV coinfected patients from a retrospective analysis of liver biopsies in 1985-2002

article

Role of US in detection of Crohn disease: meta-analysis

scientific article published in July 2005

San Francisco Syncope Rule, Osservatorio Epidemiologico sulla Sincope nel Lazio risk score, and clinical judgment in the assessment of short-term outcome of syncope

scientific article published on 28 January 2010

Selection for necropsy: evaluation of 321 autopsied cases from 3041 consecutive deaths among residents of a defined geographical area.

scientific article published in January 1991

Short- and long-term prognosis of syncope, risk factors, and role of hospital admission: results from the STePS (Short-Term Prognosis of Syncope) study

scientific article published in January 2008

Significance and validity of a shortened lead chelation test.

scientific article published in November 1990

Statistical aspects of the estimation of reference limits

scientific article published in June 1992

Syncope clinical management in the emergency department: a consensus from the first international workshop on syncope risk stratification in the emergency department

scientific article

T lymphocyte maturation is impaired in healthy young individuals carrying trisomy 21 (Down syndrome).

scientific article published in March 2009

Target organ damage in a population at intermediate cardiovascular risk, with adjunctive major risk factors: CArdiovascular PREvention Sacco Study (CAPRESS).

scientific article published on 17 December 2010

The architecture of diagnostic research: from bench to bedside--research guidelines using liver stiffness as an example

scientific article published on July 2014

The ethical problem of randomization

scientific article published on 07 September 2014

The role of hepatitis B and C viruses in hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis B endemic area: a case-control study

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

The utility of health education among lead workers: The experience of one program

article

Ultrasonography for endoleak detection after endoluminal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

scientific article published on 09 June 2017

Urinary testosterone as a marker of risk of recurrence in operable breast cancer

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Use of administrative data in healthcare research

scientific article

[An experimental evaluation of the efficacy of 4 types of detergents for 3 types of dyes to which workers in color-printing plants are exposed]

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

[Efficacy of the use of barrier creams in the prevention of dermatological diseases in textile dyeing and printing plant workers: results of a randomized trial]

scientific article published on 01 May 1994

[Elements of probability calculation--II]

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

[Number needed to treat]

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

[Reproducibility and accuracy of the diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in 15 Italian laboratories: a national pilot project. Development of new indices of diagnostic variability. National Work Group for the expert quality control

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

[The anatomo-pathologist as a necroscopy physician in the field: a balance-sheet of 4 years' experience]

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

[The cases of accident in the ceramic tile industry in relation to the age and job seniority of the workers]

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

List of works by Piergiorgio Duca

A pneumatic dilation strategy in achalasia: prospective outcome and effects on oesophageal motor function in the long term

Acceptability of meningococcal serogroup B vaccine among parents and health care workers in Italy: a survey

Accuracy and cost of diagnostic strategies for patients with suspected Crohn's disease.

Accuracy of ultrasonography, spiral CT, magnetic resonance, and alpha-fetoprotein in diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review

Amplified in situ hybridization with peptide nucleic acid probes for differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and nontuberculous Mycobacterium species on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded archival biopsy and autopsy samples.

Behavioral and degeneration changes in the basal forebrain systems of aged rats: a quantitative study in the region of the basal forebrain after levo-acetyl-carnitine treatments assessed by Abercrombie estimation.

Bleeding risk during treatment of acute thrombotic events with subcutaneous LMWH compared to intravenous unfractionated heparin; a systematic review

CARD15 Gene Variants and Risk of Reoperation in Crohn's Disease Patients

Cerebral ultrasound abnormalities in offsprings of women with C677T homozygous mutation in the MTHFR gene: a prospective study

Changes in receptor status after treatment with tamoxifen in endometrial cancer

Cigarette smoking among high school students in Brescia: analysis of relations between smoking habit and knowledge, attitudes socioeconomic and behavioral factors

Clinical decision making: an introduction

Clinical evidence continuous medical education: a randomised educational trial of an open access e-learning program for transferring evidence-based information - ICEKUBE (Italian Clinical Evidence Knowledge Utilization Behaviour Evaluation) - study p

Collection of data and approximation of measurements

Computer simulator among experts involved in screening colonoscopy

Data representation

Decreasing incidence of CNS AIDS-defining events associated with antiretroviral therapy

Definition of reference values for Cd-B and Cd-U: methodological aspects and preliminary results

Deformational plagiocephaly at birth: an observational study on the role of assisted reproductive technologies

Determination of urinary 2,5-hexanedione in the general Italian population

Effects of ganglioside therapy on experimental CS2 neuropathy

Eligibility criteria in heart failure randomized controlled trials: a gap between evidence and clinical practice

Errors in medical literature: not a question of impact.

Estimation of pooled reference values for cadmium in blood using meta-analysis and TRACY criteria

Evaluation of Uterine Artery Doppler and Estrogen Milieu in Oocyte Donation Pregnancies-A Pilot Study

Evidence of differential selection of HIV-1 variants carrying drug-resistant mutations in seroconverters

Exploratory data analysis

Fibrosis progression in paired liver biopsies from HIV/HCV co-infected patients.

First trimester placental markers in oocyte donation pregnancies

Genotyping of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in Italian AIDS patients. Clinical outcome is influenced by dihydropteroate synthase and not by internal transcribed spacer genotype

Headache in children and adolescents aged 6-18 years in northern Italy: prevalence and risk factors

Hearing loss in workers in the ceramics industry: a profile of the damage assessed by a longitudinal study

Hearing threshold of workers not exposed to occupational noise: reference values

Helicobacter pylori CagA seropositivity does not influence inflammatory parameters, lipid concentrations and haemostatic factors in healthy individuals

Helicobacter pylori infection and coagulation in healthy people

IBD care in Europe: A comparative audit of the inpatient management of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis using the national UK IBD audit tool

Immunomodulatory effects of unselected haematopoietic stem cells autotransplantation in refractory Crohn's disease

Improving adherence to and persistence with oral therapy of osteoporosis.

Influence of climate on emergency department visits for syncope: role of air temperature variability

Long-term prophylaxis in hereditary angio-oedema: a systematic review.

Lopinavir/ritonavir pharmacokinetics in HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with or without cirrhosis

Lopinavir/ritonavir treatment in HIV antiretroviral-experienced patients: evaluation of risk factors for liver enzyme elevation.

Lung ultrasound is an accurate diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of pneumonia in the emergency department

Maintenance Treatment With Azathioprine in Ulcerative Colitis: Outcome and Predictive Factors After Drug Withdrawal

Modified versus standard intention-to-treat reporting: are there differences in methodological quality, sponsorship, and findings in randomized trials? A cross-sectional study

Mucosal Healing Predicts Late Outcomes After the First Course of Corticosteroids for Newly Diagnosed Ulcerative Colitis

Numerical synthesis of statistical data

Open, randomized, multicentre italian trial on PEG-IFN plus ribavirin versus PEG-IFN monotherapy for chronic hepatitis C in HIV-coinfected patients on HAART.

Pathological findings in the central nervous system of AIDS patients on assumed antiretroviral therapeutic regimens

Precision of gestational age assessment in the neonate

Predictors of hospital admission after syncope: Relationships with clinical risk scores

Prevalence and clinical significance of sonographic evidence of mesenteric fat alterations in Crohnʼs disease

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and related upper gastrointestinal lesions in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. A cross-sectional study with matching

Priorities for emergency department syncope research

Prolonged wireless pH monitoring: importance of how to analyse oesophageal acid exposure

Reference values of urinary chromium in Italy

Reliability and accuracy in reporting CIN in 14 laboratories. Developing new indices of diagnostic variability in an interlaboratory study. The Working Group for External Quality Control in Cervical Cytopathology

Reliability and accuracy of reporting cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in 15 laboratories throughout Italy: phase 1 of a national programme of external quality control in cervical screening. The National Working Group for External Quality Co

Reproducibility of histologic classification of gastric cancer

Reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements on normal and pathologic eyes by different optical coherence tomography instruments.

Risk factors for fibrosis progression in HIV/HCV coinfected patients from a retrospective analysis of liver biopsies in 1985-2002

Role of US in detection of Crohn disease: meta-analysis

San Francisco Syncope Rule, Osservatorio Epidemiologico sulla Sincope nel Lazio risk score, and clinical judgment in the assessment of short-term outcome of syncope

Selection for necropsy: evaluation of 321 autopsied cases from 3041 consecutive deaths among residents of a defined geographical area.

Short- and long-term prognosis of syncope, risk factors, and role of hospital admission: results from the STePS (Short-Term Prognosis of Syncope) study

Significance and validity of a shortened lead chelation test.

Statistical aspects of the estimation of reference limits

Syncope clinical management in the emergency department: a consensus from the first international workshop on syncope risk stratification in the emergency department

T lymphocyte maturation is impaired in healthy young individuals carrying trisomy 21 (Down syndrome).

Target organ damage in a population at intermediate cardiovascular risk, with adjunctive major risk factors: CArdiovascular PREvention Sacco Study (CAPRESS).

The architecture of diagnostic research: from bench to bedside--research guidelines using liver stiffness as an example

The ethical problem of randomization

The role of hepatitis B and C viruses in hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis B endemic area: a case-control study

The utility of health education among lead workers: The experience of one program

Ultrasonography for endoleak detection after endoluminal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Urinary testosterone as a marker of risk of recurrence in operable breast cancer

Use of administrative data in healthcare research

[An experimental evaluation of the efficacy of 4 types of detergents for 3 types of dyes to which workers in color-printing plants are exposed]

[Efficacy of the use of barrier creams in the prevention of dermatological diseases in textile dyeing and printing plant workers: results of a randomized trial]